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'''Hilton Manasseh Carty''' [[OBE]] (born 13 June 1921) was the [[St. John's Cathedral (Antigua and Barbuda)|Dean of Antigua]] from 1977 until 1986.

Born in Antigua,<ref name=CC>"RECEPTION DATE FOR NEW PRIEST AT ST FRANCIS", in "Extracts from The Cowley Chronicle September 1965", [http://www.cowleyteamministry.co.uk/Portals/0/201211.pdf ''The Cowley Chronicle'' November 2012], accessed 29 November 2021</ref> Carty was educated at [[Codrington College]] in [[Saint John, Barbados]], and in 1945 [[ordained]] in [[British Guiana]]<ref>''[[Crockford's Clerical Directory]] 1975-76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}}, p. 162</ref> by the [[Archbishop of the West Indies]]. Remaining there, he served as assistant priest
in [[New Amsterdam, Guyana|New Amsterdam]] and [[Georgetown, Guyana|Georgetown]], then was priest-in-charge in [[Demerara]] and parish priest of several churches, the last of which was St Paul’s, [[Plaisance, Guyana|Plaisance]]. Having spent the early part of his career in British Guiana, in 1960 Carty migrated to [[Bristol]], England, as assistant priest at St Agnes Church, in [[St Pauls, Bristol|St Pauls Parish]], to do general pastoral work there.<ref name=CC/> 

In September 1965 came Carty’s landmark appointment as [[priest in charge]] of St Francis’s Church, [[Cowley, Oxfordshire]], which was widely reported by the [[Associated Press]]. In a story in ''[[The Telegraph (Nashua, New Hampshire)|The Telegraph]]'' of [[Nashua, New Hampshire]], headed "Negro Parish Priest", Carty was reported to be to be "the first negro priest to take over a [[Church of England]] parish".<ref>''[[Nashua Telegraph]]'', 18 October 1965, [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19651018&id=biNbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=_U4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=6240,4951400 p. 14]</ref> ''The Cowley Chronicle'' of September 1965 reported that Carty was "especially interested in religious plays and pageants as a means of teaching the Christian Faith" and that he brought with him his wife and their four children.<ref name=CC/> 

In 1973 Carty became Vicar of St Bartholomew’s, Reading, before in 1977 he returned to the Caribbean as Dean of [[St. John's Cathedral (Antigua and Barbuda)|St John's Cathedral]] in [[St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda|St John's, Antigua]]. Soon after that he complained in a Sunday sermon that the traditional hymns "all tell us to give thanks to God but are mostly written for people accustomed to colder climates".<ref>''Information Services on Latin America'', Vol. 15 (1977), p. 339</ref>

In 1984 Carty was appointed as an [[Officer of the Order of the British Empire]].
<ref>''[[The London Gazette]]'', 16 June 1984 (Supplement) [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/49980/supplement/1 p. 1]</ref> He retired as Dean of Antigua in 1986.<ref>[http://stjohnsrestoration.blogspot.com/2010/12/ The Restoration Deans], December 27, 2010</ref> 

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